George Gordon Byron

January 22, 1788-April 19, 1824

Father: John Byron (1756-1791) Mother: Catherine Gordon Byron (c. 1764-1811)

DEATHCause: FeverLocation: Missolonghi, GreeseRemains: Buried, St. Mary Magdalene Churchyard, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England

Romantic Time Period *an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century

George Gordon

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Major poemsThe First Kiss of Love (1806)Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination (1806) To a Beautiful Quaker (1807) The Cornelian (1807)Lines Addressed to a Young Lady (1807) Lachin y Gair (1807)Epitaph to a Dog (1808)Maid of Athens, ere we part (1810) She Walks in Beauty (1814)My Soul is Dark (1815) Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan (1816) When We Two Parted (1817)Ode on Venice (1819) So, we'll go no more a roving (1830)

TYPES OF WRITING*satire*speculative drama*lyric*verse narrative

Other Romantic Authors:Joanna Baillie, Anna Barbauld, William Blake, Robert Burns, Brontë family, Lord Byron, Thomas Carlyle, François-René de Chateaubriand, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alexandre Dumas, Maria Edgeworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, José de Espronceda, Aleksander Fredro, William Godwin, John Keats, James Kenney, Janko Kráľ, Zygmunt Krasiński, Charles Lamb, Mikhail Lermontov, Karel Hynek Mácha, Herman Melville, Adam Mickiewicz, Hannah More, Charles Nodier, Gérard de Nerval, Cyprian Norwid, Adam Oehlenschläger, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pushkin, Mary Robinson, George Sand, Friedrich Schleiermacher

George, a.k.a Lord Byron, was known as the greatest British poets and his work is still widely read today. He fought against the Ottoman Empire and was known to be a hero. He was said to be very attractive and had many lovers in his time, both male and female. He sadly died at the age of 35 from a fever but still accomplished a lot and is well deserving to be admitted into the GHS British Literature Hall of Fame.